Originally Posted by headinclouds
Another reason why the loss of SWISS to *A was a big loss to OW. Perhaps AA will move some LHR flights to other European cities to bypass the LHR zoo.
The problem is that lot of the traffic to LHR is connections to AA partners. So it's got to be cities where that works.
For those who don't mind backtracking (if final destination is western Europe), BUD after MA joiins would be one.
MAD might be another, tho if the AA masses complain as much about IB as FTers do that might be tough.
AY might be a fine airline (at least I don't see people on FT complaining about them left and right), but HEL is way over there (wonderful for Russia, but what else, especially after MA joins?).
One thing that could work is if AA could set up an EQM agreement with SN (sort of the way it has with AS). Most AA fliers in the US don't care that much that AS is not officially in OW, because they get the same EQM earning ability (and even exit row seat selection if booked as an AA codeshare!) just due to the way AA and AS have partnered.